Summer NAMM 2011: Southern Gear Fry

1. DigiTech iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard
The iPB-10 features an iPad
dock and DigiTech’s new iPB
Nexus app, which offers 87
different pedal models, 37 amp
models, and 32 cabinet models.
All models can be quickly and
easily manipulated onscreen
via visual representations of the
devices. Fourteen footswitches
let you switch between 20 banks
of five virtual pedalboards, each
of which can include up to 10
pedals, as well as amp emulations
that you can insert at any
point in the chain. digitech.com

2. Levana Mellow-D
Digital Delay
The Mellow-D digital delay has a
rear-panel Jitter switch that lets
you add a low- or high-frequency
oscillation to the signal for delectably
trippy lo-fi tones. It also
features an expression pedal input
and up to 1000 ms of delay. studiobluellc.com

3. Electro-Harmonix Ravish Sitar
This new pedal from the stompbox
innovators at EHX aims to
give you access to sitar tones
with a polyphonic Lead voice
and tunable emulations of
sympathetic-string drones. It has
two expression-pedal inputs for
bending the pitch of the lead voice
and controlling the volume of the
sympathetic tones. ehx.com

4. Amptweaker TightRock
Amp and effects guru James
Brown’s new TightRock has EQ
and Gain Boost switches, as
well as a noise gate that adjusts
in tandem with the Gain knob.
It also features a PlexEQ switch
for old-school stack flavors and
a SideTrak effects loop that
disengages when the pedal is on
so you can have, say, modulation
effects from your pedalboard
activated with your clean sound
but then click the TightRock on
to blast out a solo with a direct,
in-your-face tone. amptweaker.com

Gear Editor Charles Saufley is a career writer and editor from San Francisco. Before joining Premier Guitar he served as Associate Editor at Acoustic Guitar magazine (where his predecessor was esteemed PG Editor in Chief Shawn Hammond.) He became music obsessed not long after birth—thanks in no small part to older siblings who ‘babysat’ him with a set of headphones, Revolver, and Sticky Fingers. Charles still spends a lot of time listening to records. And his many git-fiddle heroes include Roger McGuinn, Pete Townshend, Tom Verlaine, Eddie Phillips, Nokie Edwards, Gabor Szabo, John Cippolina, Randy Holden, Erkin Koray, Greg Ginn, and Sonic Youth.

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